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2. Explain the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics.

3. Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative data.

4. Explain how populations and variables differ.

5. Explain how populations and samples differ.

6. What is a representative sample?

7. Explain the difference between a population and a process.

8. Define statistical thinking.

9. Suppose you’re given a data set that classifies each sample unit into one of four categories: A, B, C or D. You plan to create a computer database consisting of these data, and you decide to code the data as A = 1, B = 2, C = 3 and D = 4. Are the data consisting of the classifications A, B, C and D qualitative or quantitative? After the data are in out as 1, 2, 3, or 4, are they qualitative or quantitative?

10. Identify each of the following variables as qualitative or quantitative.

11. Each month interviewers visit about 69,000 of the 93 million households in the region and question the occupants over 18 years of age about their educational status. Their responses enable the interviewers to estimate the percentage of people in the labor force who are college educated. Compare parts a through c.

12. Complete the table to the right?

13. In one university, language professors incorporated a 10-week extensive program to improve students’ Japanese reading comprehension. The professors collected 283 books originally written for Japanese children and required their students to read at least 40 of them as part of the grade in the course. The books were categorized into reading levels (color-coded for easy selection) according to length and complexity. Complete parts a through c.

14. A group of marketing professors asked every fourth adult entrant to a mall to participate in a study. A total of 119 shoppers agreed to answer the question, “Made locally” means what percentage of local labor and materials?” The responses of the 119 shoppers are summarized in the table to the right. Complete parts a through c below.

15. Graph the relative frequency histogram for the 300 measurements summarized in the relative frequency table to the right.

16. If jobs arrive at a particular work center at a faster rate than they depart, the work center impedes the overall production process and is referred to as a bottleneck. The data in the table were collected by an operations manager for use in investigating a potential bottleneck work center.

17. A data set contains the observations 3, 5, 4, 2, 3. Find the following values.

18. Calculate the mean and Median of the following grade point averages.

2.5 2.9 3.6 2.6 3.2 3.7

19. Five banks have been ranked by the amount charged to credit and debit cards issued by the banks. The table to the right gives the total amount charged in 2007 for the top ranked banks.

20. The data on the age (in years) of each of the 20 most powerful women in a region are shown below.

49 62 52 ……………………………………….64

21. The salaries of superstar professional athletes receive much attention in the media. The multimillion-dollar long-term contract is now commonplace among this elite group. Nevertheless, rarely does a season pass without negotiations between one or more of the players’ associations and team owners for additional salary and fringe benefits for all players in their particular sports. Complete parts a and b below.

22. Calculate the range, variance, and standard deviation for the following sample.

3, -3,2,……………….4

23. A university’s language professors incorporated a 10-week extensive redaing program into a second-semester Japanese language course in an effort to improve students’ Japanese reading comprehension. Fourteen students participated in this reading program. Complete parts a through c.

24. A country’s Energy Information Administration monitors all nuclear power plants operating in that country. The table to the right lists the number of active nuclear power plants operating in each of a sample of 10 states.

25. A study of 100,000 first-time candidates for the CPA exam found that the mean number of semester hours of college credit taken by the candidates was 144.58 hours. The standard deviation was reported to be 15.73 hours. Complete parts a through c.

26. Compute the z-score corresponding to each of the values of x below.

27. Compare the z-scores to decide which of the x values below lie the greatest above the mean and the greatest distance below the mean.

28. A sample data set has a mean of 74 and a standard deviation of 10. Determine whether each of the following sample measurements are outliers.

29. Consider the horizandal box shown to the right.

30. Educators are constantly evaluating the efficacy of public schools in the education and training of students. One quantitative assessment of change over time is the difference in scores on the SAT. The table below contains the average SAT scores for 10 states for the years 1988 and 2005.

31. Data on annual rainfall, maximum daily temperature, percentage of planet cover, and number of anti species recorded at each of 11 study sites are given in the accompanying table. Complete parts a through c.

32. Determine whether the random variable is discrete or continuous.

33. The random variable x has the following discrete probability distribution. Complete parts a through f.

34. X intercept, y intercept

35. If x is a binomial random variable, compute p(x) for each of the cases below.

36. According to a business magazine, 30% all small businesses owned by non-Hispanic whites nationwide are women-owned firms.

37. According to a certain golf association, the weight of the golf ball ball shall not be greater than 1.620 ounces (45.93 grams). The velocity of the ball shall not be greater than 250 feet per second. The golf association periodically checks the specifications of golf balls using sampling. Five dozen of each kind are sampled, and if more than three do not meet size or velocity requirements, that kind of ball is removed from the golf association’s approved list. Complete parts a and b.

38. Find the area under the standard normal probability distribution between the following pairs of z-scores.

39. Suppose the random variable x is the best described by a normal distribution with µ = 32 and = 5. Find the z-score that corresponds to each of the following x-values.

40. The mean gas mileage for a hybrid car is 56 miles per gallon. Suppose that the gasoline mileage is approximately normally distributed with a standard deviation of 3.2 miles per gallon.

41. Personnel tests are designed to test a job applicant’s cognitive and/or physical abilities. A particular dexterity test is administered nationwide by a private testing service. It is known that for all tests administered last year, the distribution of scores was approximately normal with mean 76 and standard deviation 7.8.

42. Determine evidence to support or contradict the assumption that the data to the right come from an approximately normal distribution.

43. An airport terminal handles an average of 3,000 international passengers an hour, but is capable of handling twice that number. Also after scanning all luggage, 20% arriving international passengers are detained for intrusive luggage inspection. The inspection facility can handle 500 passengers an hour without unreasonable delays for the travelers. Complete parts a through c.

44. Will the sampling distribution of always be approximately normally distributed? Explain.

45. The number of semester hours of college credit taken by first-time candidates for a certain professional exam has a distribution with a mean of 127 hours and a standard deviation of 14 hours. Consider a random sample of 100 first-time candidates for the exam and let represent the mean number of hours of college credit taken for the sample. Complete parts a through e below.

1. Consider the pairs of measurements shown to the right.
2. Researchers investigated the effect of tablet surface area to volume on the rate at which a drug is released in a controlled-release dosage. For six similarly shaped tablet..

1. Researchers conducted a survey of a representative sample of over 1,000 drivers. Based on how often each driver engaged in road behaviour, a road rage score was given. The drivers were also grouped by annual income. The data were subjected to an analysis of varian..

You observe female sales representatives having lower customer defections than male sales representatives. What concepts and constructs would you use to study this phenomenon? How might the concepts or constructs relate to explanatory hypotheses? Explain.
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In your organization’s management development program, there was a heated discussion between people who claimed that theory is impractical and not effective, and others who claimed that effective theory is the most practical approach to problems. What position would you take and why?
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1. Which hypothesis, the null or the alternative, is the status-quo hypothesis?
2. A university economist conducted a study of elementary school lunch menus. During the state-mandated testing period, school lunches averaged 890 calor..

What is the purpose of sampling? What are some concerns and dangers of sampling? How important is the sample design to data validity? Explain. Provide an example where a sample might misrepresent data validity. For example, reflect on the current political campaign and the pollsters!
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What are some examples of operational definitions in research design within your profession? For example, in the education field, graduation rate and retention rate are important operational definitions to measure progress of students. Likewise other professions have common metrics and defin..

1. A random sample of 87 observations produced a mean = 25.7 and a standard deviation s = 2.6.
2. Health care workers who use latex gloves with glove powder on a daily basis are particularly susceptible to developing a latex al..

When would you use Chebyshev’s theorem and the empirical rule in business? How are they calculated? Provide one real-life example that requires Chebyshev’s theorem and one that requires the empirical rule.
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This Tutorial contains 2 Sets of Report and Presentation
Complete the cumulative Business Research Report in approx. 1,500 words by collaborating with your team to include the following:
Revised tables or figures based on prior instructor feedback
The description or interpretati..

This Tutorial contains 2 different sets
Administer the survey.
In a paper in the APA format describe the following:
Determine the sample process including sample contact, survey distribution, and survey collection.
Organize, prepare, and describe the data.
Include tabl..

Create a Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet with the two variables from a dataset for your choosing.
Analyze the data with MegaStat®, StatCrunch®, Microsoft® Excel®or other statistical tool(s), including:
(a) Descriptive stats for each numeric variable
and
(b) Histogram for e..

This Tutorial contains 2 different sets
Create a draft of the survey.
Conduct a pilot pretest having another Learning Team in the class to provide feedback for your team. Chet will create a message thread for each team to place their survey in the Class Discussion Tab.&nb..

This Tutorial contains 2 different Papers
Develop a plan for your Business Research Project in approx. 800 words.
Revise the research questions based on instructor feedback from the previous week.
Identify population and samples for your research.
Describe w..

Identify an organization or business for your Learning Team research project.
Describe the products or services it provides.
Identify a problem or dilemma faced by the organization that could be addressed by research.
Discuss the problem as a team..

Identify an organization from any member in your Learning Team or an organization with which your team is familiar. If an actual company is used, disguise its name with a pseudonym.
Identify one independent variable and one dependent variable based on the business. Operation..

Chapter 13:
Ex 6) The owner of Maumee Ford-Mercury-Volvo wants to study the relationship between the age of a car and its selling price. Listed below is a random sample of 12 used cars sold at the dealership during the last year.
a. If we wants to estimate selling price on the basis of the age o..

Chapter 10:
Ex 2) A Sample of 36 observations is selected from a normal population. The sample mean is 12, and the population standard deviation is 3. Conduct the following test of hypothesis using the 0.01 significance level.
EX. 10) Given the following hypotheses:
H0 : µ = 400
H1: µ ≠ 400
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Chapter 8:
Ex 2) The following is a list of 29 hospitals in the Cincinnati (Ohio) and Northern Kentucky region. The hospitals are identified by numbering them 00 through 28. Also included is whether the hospital is a general medical/surgical hospital (M/S) or a specialty hospital (..

Chapter 5:
Ex 4) A large company must hire a new president. The Board of Directors prepares a list of five candidates, all of whom are equally qualified. Two of these candidates are members of a minority group. To avoid bias in the selection of the candidate, the company decides to select the pre..

Chapter 18:
EX.2) Listed Below is the number of movie tickets sold at the Library Cinema-Complex, in thousands, for the period from 2001 to 2013. Compute a five-year weighted moving average using weights of 0.15, 0.15, 0.25, 0.16, and 0.29, respectively. Describe the trend in yield.
EX 10) Ap..

Review the Case Study: MBA Schools in Asia-Pacific and the Case Study: MBA Schools in Asia-Pacific data set.
Prepare a 1,050-word managerial report for your boss.
Use the following questions for guidelines and directions on what to include in the report:
1. What is the type of data (Quantitative..

Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment to orient students to the key concepts in statistics. This assignment will introduce students to the language of statistics. Students will also get a chance to warm-up on evaluating some basic descriptive statistics using Excel® prior to the cour..

Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment to orient students to the key concepts in statistics. This assignment will introduce students to the language of statistics. Students will also get a chance to warm-up on evaluating some basic descriptive statistics using Excel® prior to the cour..

Individual Paper Signature Assignment
About Your Signature Assignment
This signature assignment is designed to align with specific program student learning outcome(s) in your program. Program Student Learning Outcomes are broad
statements that describe what students should know and be able to do ..

Week 5
Learning team Paper
Part A : One-Sample Hypothesis Testing Cases
Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to develop students' abilities to combine the knowledge of descriptive statistics covered in Weeks 1 and 2 and one-sample hypothesis testing to make managerial decisi..

Week 5
Individual Paper
• Spicy Wings Case
Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to develop students' abilities to combine the knowledge of descriptive statistics covered in Weeks 1 and 2 and one-sample hypothesis testing to make managerial decisions. In this assignment, stude..

Individual Paper
Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of the assignment is to develop students' abilities in using datasets to apply the concepts of sampling distributions and confidence intervals to make management decisions.
Assignment Steps
Resources: Microsoft Excel®, The Payment Time Case S..

Learning team paper
Purpose of Assignment
This assignment has two cases. The first case is on expansion strategy. Managers constantly have to make decisions under uncertainty. This assignment gives students an opportunity to use the mean and standard deviation of probability distributions to make..

Individual Paper:
Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is for students to learn how to make managerial decisions using a case study on Normal Distribution. This case uses concepts from Weeks 1 and 2. It provides students an opportunity to perform sensitivity analysis and make ..

1. James Desreumaux, VP of Human Resources of American First Banks (AFB), is reviewing the employee training programs of AFB banks. His staff randomly selected personnel files for 100 tellers in the Southeast Region and determined that their mean training time was 25 hours. Assume that the po..

Individual Paper Signature Assignment
About Your Signature Assignment
This signature assignment is designed to align with specific program student learning outcome(s) in your program. Program Student Learning Outcomes are broad
statements that describe what students should know and be able to do ..

After reading chapter 12, explain how ANOVA could help to explain the association between two variables. Give an example.
After reading chapter 13, how ANOVA could help to understand the expansion of the hypothesis testing of two variables?
After reading chapter 18, select a TQM chart and expl..